Safety pin



V. PUC.

SAFETY PIN.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.4, 1919.

1,415,473. xited M y 9, 1922 v 'UnHllHlli l ,7/

SAFETY PIN.

Specification .01 Letterslate'nt.

(GRANTED UNDER THE raovisrons or THE'ACT or 'imaen 3,1921, 41 STAT. I.., 1313. a

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, VoJ'nEoH Poo, a citizen of the czecho-Slovak Republic, residing in Prague-Vinohrady, Bohemia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety Pins, (for which I have filed applications in Austria, filed April 15, 1915, patented September 13, 1916, No. 72,915, in Czecho-Slovakia. filed July 8,1919, patented March 20, 1920, No. 814,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to safety pins made for the most part of wire and provided with a guard for the pointed end of the pin, and the object of the invention is to provide means whereby the pointed end of the pin may be freed from its guard without manipulating that part of the pin which contains its point.

The invention further consists in so forming the pin as to make it possible to open it with one hand or with two fingers while the other hand of the user may be otherwise engaged. Y

The invention also consists in forming a pin of the kind referred to in such manner that it may serve as ahanger for goods fixed to the pin or as a label holder for various kinds of goods.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of a safety pin embodying my improvements, showing the pin closed.

Figure 2 is a similar View, showing the pin about to be opened. The pinis made entirely of two pieces of metal, namely, the wire part which forms the pointed memher A, the spring B and the laterally projecting member 0, hereinafter more particularly described, while the guard D is made of a single piece of sheet metal and may be of usual form, having a slotted opening d of any suitable shape. One endv of the wire is anchored at m-inthe guard, while the pointed member is freeto bend and move into and out of the guard. The laterally projecting memberC is produced by causing the wire to overlap at 0 in substantially the same shown. The ends 'of these portions are then bent downwardly, as indicated at e to produce two substantially parallel parts although preferably these parts are slightly plane, producing parallel portions as inclined. Thetwo parts are then bent at their outer portions 9 and then turned inwardly and formed into a coiled spring h. The parts last described constitute a laterally projecting member which forms a handle for the pin and by means of which the pin can be opened with one hand. It also provides a hanger inasmuch as the pin may be attached to a garment, kinds, or labels or advertisements. hanger may be supported on any suitable device.

When the pin thus constructed is employed to suspend goods, the laterally projecting member C will of course be arranged uppermost. The spring of the laterally projecting member C is under such tension that it normally holds the pointed end of the pin in, the guard, but if the: opposite side ice. Patented hIay9, 192 2..

Application filedl August 4, 1919. SeriaLNo. 315,112.

goods of various The- members be grasped by the hand or by the.

thumb and first finger and pressed towards each other the base of the safety pin or those,

parts between the bends 6 will be moved outwards, thus lengthening the base and moving the guard longitudinally away from the spring so that finally the point of the pin will spring out of the guard, in the-manner indicatedin Fig. 2, where it will be observed that the members f have'been pressed towards each other, the distance between the bends e has, been lessened and the point is just about to leave the guard. A slight additional pressure on the parts f will cause the point to leave the guard. When presthen the pointed end of the pin may be made to engage the guard in the usual way.

I claim as my invention: r 1. A safety pin provided with a laterally sure on the parts f is relieved, the parts between e, e assume their normal position and projecting member and having parts which A are movable under spring tension to lengthen the pin as a whole and t0 thus withdraw-the pointed end of the pin from. y

its guard. I

2. A safety pin, comprising 7 a pointed member, a guard with which it co-operates, a spring for the pointed member, a part of the pin permanently attached to the guard,

and a laterally projecting member interposed between the guard and the spring for f the pointflwhich has parts movable relatively to each other under spring tension to move 4. A safety pin provided with a pointed member, a looped end and a guard, the loop being connected with the guard by a member provided with a laterally projecting portion comprising tWo parts having overlapping portions at their inner ends and having their outer ends cross-connected for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name.

VOJTEGH PUG. 

